Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-09-28

sD10k0 0uL !IN lssts 1e1eeyaY l1ue Nc xo1-5
burned 81 S 1nsrcSsni
hotel and C Icon equip naents, tho total
aggregating $500 Qoo with smsll insursnos.I
Harry cDowell. II years d age,s
who had been working On ! farm g Rock
port, Mo-, LIFT that July i % 10 "a Iii,
home 81 RTeeport, I1. Nothing Wa heard
q. seen. of him until Friday whom his body
had been murd ior 60. IS TWO mon nI were
alIsstsd On uspicion of having killed him.
a number of large oil storage tanks
dslTricks and other appara tus, near
\ CYgnet, Ohio, On the Toledo, Southern and
Western R. RI, took dre from 90 exhaled,
/ by the wells which was ignited 81 the fur
5nace under TIE engine boiler. Two, e men
u bad wreck occurred on tho Atlantic
10 PaoiAo 4. II, 20 miles nom Needless
Gal. Tho engine and forward half 8of tho
train went through Q bridge. Engineer
Frank Thomson was killed, And ~ 81 ru-
mored that the killed and injured VII mum.
her nearly Afty people.
It took four masked robbers only ten
minutes % rob the Texas 8 Pacific east
bound expires. train at Benwood, IL miles
from Forth Worth, securing from the Elk.
press and mail car booty Of the value Of
$ao, 600. Passenger were not molested.
a negro who undertook to kill q
young man named Fleming, but instead
shot Mrs. Foster. Fleming's sister, was
taken from the oars near Leeds. Alabama,
and hanged to- q tree, by fifteen masked
men. 81 1s% S##. a.
At Leavenworth, Kas., Henry Rich.
tor, = well-known German, had his throat
icnt BY 2 pair Of negro rufhans In the full
glare Of an electric light and while several
were passing and yet the murderers escaped
Charles r. Wilson, deputy postlnas-
ter Of Sterling, III. was killed 1t the Ogle
county fair races, Friday. He was driving
his dotting horse Zulu, collided with anoth-
or horse and was thrown upon his head.
The grocery store Of Dominic NJ,
Messina, at New Orleans, was destroyed BY
fire, caused by an explosion Of gunpowdsr.
children persisted ID the danes. !. 49, ~
At Chicago, Mrs. "A. r. Parsons,
wife Of the condemned anarchist, has been
arrested and locked up by the police tor
circulating the address written BY her hus-.
band % the American people. .S:
a States Attorney Grinnell, Judge
Jameson and Melville w. Fuller Of Chicago,
are rather inclined to make light Of the law
points which Gen. Pryor will seek TO raise
In behalf OF the anarchists. &:
At Harrodsburg, Ind, desperate
character Anderson, undertook to get into
the house Of respectable widow, at mid
night and was fatally shot by the woman.
Two sections of q freight train on
the Fort Wayne road, collided at Forest,
Ohio. A can Of dynamite exploded killing
the engineer and fremen and three tramps.
! ON. johnson, Cincinnati usurer
who had ground down poor people, charg-
ing as high as 200 per cent. interest, was
fined 81 600 and costs by Judge Caldwell.
= The barb-wire mill of Fish &
Cornell, at Joliet, H., with IS wire
machines, employing 80 hands has been
burned. Loss z, coo, insurance ample.
NJ. D. Ball, United States attorney
for Alaska, died on the steamer Aucon
shipped to Washington City.
Gravenhurst, Ont, . small town
suffered q large loss by fire, not business
place being left, nor building on nine
blocks. Loss $780, 900. 0 .s*
4: A large part Of the business portion
Of the town Of Sanford, Fla, has been des-
troyed by fire. Loss $500, 600, and very
little insurance. sEE n 35.ff3SS 81 &
Talbot, the youth who stole Fanny
Davenport's diamonds last February In
Memphis, has been sentenced to dix years
imprisonment. 3s255' Iz#: z5$ ;5..
Mrs. S. r Borden Of Tonica, Ill,
has died at Chatsworth, being the s0th,
victim Of the Niagara excursion disaster.
Fire at Elgin, Texas, destroyed tho
Chemical works and warehouses and three
stores. Loss a., 600, insurance s, goo. J:
Ninety-one Cinnamon, in one batch,
were arrested at Chicago for playing bung
loo, . Chinese gambling game.
The Gallatin Glass Works at sharps-
burg, Pa, have been destroyed BY fire.
Hon. E. B. Washburne is seriously
III with congestion o. the brain. HE
Montreal is investigating charges Of
OF aldermanic dishonesty. 85 5ts553.5 55@.
:.sr5>. s'*e m THE EAST. 2sz. ..s
The State Convention Of the Massa-
chusetts Democracy was held Of Worcester,
on the 9Oth, 1901 delegates being present.
An informal ballot was taken for Governor,
II. B. Lowering and VIM. 3. Russell being
686, Russell 358; the nomination Of Lover
ing was made unanimous. The ticket was
completed 40 follows: Lieut. tenant governor,
Walter p. Cutting /; secretary Of state, John
+. Murphy treasurer, Henry q. Thstcher;.
attorney general, y. w: Corcoran !; auditor,